Mike Mazurki Overview:

Character actor, Mike Mazurki, was born Michail Mazuruski on Dec 25, 1907 in Tarnopol, Galicia. Mazurki died at the age of 83 on Dec 9, 1990 in Glendale, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

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Austrian-born actor. In America from an early age, he was a professional footballer and wrestler before taking his huge frame to Hollywood to play hoodlums' henchmen. Dim-looking (but actually well-educated), with hook nose, open mouth and aggressive, small-eyed stare, he would have done any Damon Runyon story proud, and became the definitive Moose Malloy in the 1945 version of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Mike Mazurki Quotes:

Chief Policeman: [Hajj the poet has just been sentenced by the Wazir, and the Chief Policeman enters to find him and Lalume, the Wazir's wife, kissing] Is that his sentence?


Flat Mouth: Medicine Mound. Sacred. Comanche only go there to meet Great Spirit.


Sr. First Sergeant: [a Cossack] kills Poles just because they're Poles. Like we're trying to kill Indians just because they're Indians.
Capt. Thomas Archer: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!


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Mike Mazurki Facts
Awarded the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame's New York State Award, which was presented to an individual who made significant contributions to the sport of Professional Wrestling in the PWHF's home state of New York.

Best remembered as the lumbering, intense yet soft-hearted Moose Malloy in the classic 1945 film-noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', called Murder, My Sweet (1944) in the US (while retaining the novel's title overseas).

Father of actress Michelle Mazurki.

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